Zhu Jingyuan knew how to load weapons, but he still didn't answer directly, and of course he wasn't prepared to deliberately hold back.

Regarding the application of his creativity and ideas, Zhu Jingyuan has seriously considered it again in the past two days.

It's the industrial age now, not the time when industrialization hasn't started yet.

You don't have to think about your own mature ideas at all, which will affect the ideological enlightenment effect of traditional craftsmen.

At present, the senior craftsmen of these big countries have received systematic education and training, and they all have modern cognitive logic and ways of thinking.

Now in all walks of life in Daming, there must be a relatively mature process in terms of exploration and research and development methods.

I've just provided them with some ideas, and they can't stop thinking about it.

To put it bluntly, their own ideas are just a suggestion from Party A, and they themselves usually get all kinds of suggestions from officials and users.

It's just that their requirements are more reliable, so they will trust themselves more.

How to achieve these requirements depends on how they solve them themselves.

It would be too arrogant to be able to make these high-level craftsmen completely give up thinking with their own personal efforts.

Taking 10,000 steps back, there are so many senior craftsmen in the entire Ming Dynasty, and there are only a few that I can often come into contact with, which can't affect the overall situation at all.

When you introduce yourself, you can add a little bit of a process of guiding thinking to disguise your determination.

Avoid them feeling that they can do anything, and avoid falling on themselves if something goes wrong.

"I think Lao Zhao's idea is very reasonable, after the plane itself is formed, what we need to do in the future is to continue to experiment and improve.

"Pilots find problems, craftsmen solve problems, pilots make reasonable needs, craftsmen realize those needs.

"Now that pilots want to load weapons, the craftsmen should think about how to put weapons on."

The craftsmen and test pilots nodded one after another, and Li Rui said directly:

"His Royal Highness's reasoning is transparent, so that people can understand it as soon as they hear it, and I don't think it is difficult to achieve Lao Liu's request.

"You can hang some bombs on the plane, but you don't have to keep them in the driver's hand, as long as the pilot can control it.

"You can add several self-locking buckles to the belly or sides of the aircraft, and the corresponding rings can also be welded to the bombs and hung on those buckles.

"The snap-on controller, like the rudder surface of the rear wing, is connected to the cockpit with steel wires and fastened to a dedicated movable handlebar.

"Let the driver pull the handle, pull the buckle that hooked the bomb and release it, and the bomb hanging under the belly of the plane will be dropped.

"As for the machine gun, I think it can be mounted in the middle of the wings, close to the side of the fuselage, and the fire can be controlled by the towing structure.

"You don't necessarily need to add an extra person, that would affect the load capacity of the aircraft too much."

Zhu Jingyuan listened and nodded slightly.

There is nothing to say about the way to hang the bomb, this is already quite advanced, and it will basically be this idea in the future.

The airborne machine gun scheme proposed by Li Rui is also the most secure and least restrictive scheme in history, but Li Rui's thinking is not broad enough:

"Then since the pilot does not need to manually pull the trigger, is it possible to install multiple machine guns at the same time?"

Li Rui suddenly smiled and said:

"Yes, we can install a machine gun on each side of the fuselage, make the towing structure together, and let the pilot control two machine guns at the same time."

Lao Zhao next to him heard that he could load two machine guns, and he was a little excited, and then he was also a little confused:

"Director Li, you put the machine gun on your wings, and you can indeed use a tightrope to fire it, but how can the person who pilots the plane aim?"

Li Rui was also stunned for a moment, and then after thinking about it, he said:

"Aiming is a problem, but the target that the plane is going to attack will not be too small and accurate, and it will not allow you to directly hit a specific person.

"It should be a task of strafing enemy positions and airships, and even hitting enemy planes, and there is no need to aim too precisely at too small targets.

"Let's calibrate the sights as much as possible, and you need to do a little more practice to get used to the margin of firing space, and you should be able to complete the task."

Lao Zhao scratched his head:

"Director Li, what you said is easy, then even if it can be achieved, the hit rate is not high, it is better to install it in the middle, and be able to ...... directly at the target."

Li Rui also spread his hands:

"Isn't there no way, the machine gun can only be mounted on the side of the fuselage, which is easy to install and maintain, and it will be blocked by the propeller in the middle......"

Lao Zhao also felt that what Li Rui said made sense, but he still subconsciously looked at Zhu Jingyuan.

That look just wanted to ask, is there a better way for Zhu Jingyuan, after all, this highness has always had a lot of ideas.

Zhu Jingyuan listened to the discussion, and he wanted to laugh a little in his heart.

This is a typical conflict between pilots and engineers, where pilots demand idealized operations, but engineers can only accommodate reality.

Mounted at the base of the wings, the machine gun is the safest and most modest option, but combat does require adaptation.

Zhu Jingyuan nodded with a smile and said:

"I think the design of the machine gun at the root of the wing should be the most conservative and safe solution.

"You can use it as the main optimization direction to improve the aiming efficiency as much as possible and reduce the difficulty of the attack as much as possible.

But at the same time, you can't just stop thinking.

"For example, if a machine gun is mounted on the nose, will it be blocked by a spiral?"

When the craftsmen heard this guidance, they subconsciously began to discuss:

"Of course it's not sure to be blocked, there are only two propellers after all."

"But some of the bullets will definitely hit the propeller, and the result will definitely be very dangerous."

"If the machine gun is placed at a distance away from the range of the propeller, the distance to the pilot will increase......"

"It's no different from being on a wing."

Zhu Jingyuan sighed in his heart, so he used a more direct way to guide directly in two clear directions:

"Don't be bound by the existing framework and understanding, sometimes you have to look for possibilities in the direction of the impossible.

"Like, is there a way to put a machine gun on the nose and at the same time keep the bullet from hitting the propeller? Is there such a method?

"Or is the machine gun in the range of the propeller, but it will not be blocked by the propeller? Is there such a place? ”

Listening to Zhu Jingyuan's obviously guiding tone, many craftsmen subconsciously looked at the plane not far away, looking at the nose propeller and started thinking.

After all, they are the best craftsmen, and they are inevitably not qualified to work directly in the Ministry of Industry.

When there was no guidance from Zhu Jingyuan, he had made all kinds of designs before, and he was not a particularly rigid person in thinking.

Zhu Jingyuan's hint was enough to activate their thinking.

So after a short discussion and brewing on the scene, a young craftsman spoke with some uncertainty:

"It's not going to be blocked by a spinning propeller...... place, that's just ...... It's in the middle, and you can open a hole in the middle!

"So the machine gun's ...... The barrel, can it fit in the middle of the propeller? ”

A craftsman next to him immediately reacted:

"You mean the shaft? Make the barrel into the shaft of the propeller? Let the propeller spin outside? ”

Several craftsmen were excited, but some came out to question it.

"How to deal with the problem of barrel heat dissipation?"

"How to arrange the structure of the gun body?"

"It's not just the machine gun that dissipates heat, it's also the heat of the engine."

"It's really all a problem......

When Zhu Jingyuan heard this, he immediately understood that the plan proposed by this craftsman was commonly known as the "shaft cannon".

Make the main shaft of the propeller hollow, and install the barrel or barrel directly into the shaft, so that the propeller rotates outside the barrel.

Historically, many propeller aircraft have used this "shaft gun", which can be said to be the most convenient airborne gun for aiming and shooting, and is the favorite of many pilots.

However, the shaft gun scheme is good, but there are certain requirements for the level of industrial design and manufacturing technology.

Critical will limit engine design and installation.

Now Da Ming doesn't know if he can get this plan, but he can definitely try it.

Anyway, there is a simpler scheme of shooting coordinator for yourself.